“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”

“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.”

“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”

“Don't look at him!" he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way”

“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”